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Cloud Security Handbook

By : Eyal Estrin
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Cloud Security Handbook

By: Eyal Estrin

Overview of this book

Securing resources in the cloud is challenging, given that each provider has different mechanisms and processes. Cloud Security Handbook helps you to understand how to embed security best practices in each of the infrastructure building blocks that exist in public clouds. This book will enable information security and cloud engineers to recognize the risks involved in public cloud and find out how to implement security controls as they design, build, and maintain environments in the cloud. You'll begin by learning about the shared responsibility model, cloud service models, and cloud deployment models, before getting to grips with the fundamentals of compute, storage, networking, identity management, encryption, and more. Next, you'll explore common threats and discover how to stay in compliance in cloud environments. As you make progress, you'll implement security in small-scale cloud environments through to production-ready large-scale environments, including hybrid clouds and multi-cloud environments. This book not only focuses on cloud services in general, but it also provides actual examples for using AWS, Azure, and GCP built-in services and capabilities. By the end of this cloud security book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how to implement security in cloud environments effectively.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Securing Infrastructure Cloud Services
6
Section 2: Deep Dive into IAM, Auditing, and Encryption
10
Section 3: Threats and Compliance Management
14
Section 4: Advanced Use of Cloud Services

Compute services for hybrid cloud environments

The hybrid cloud architecture is not just limited to connecting on-premises environments to the cloud for resource consumption. It can also be used in scenarios where an organization would like to keep its data locally (due to regulatory restrictions or network latency) while still benefitting from cloud capabilities and, perhaps sometime in the future, be able to migrate data and resources to the cloud.

Using compute services over AWS hybrid environments

Amazon offers the following services in a local deployment topology:

  • AWS Outposts: A fully managed service that contains the same type of compute, storage, database, and networking capabilities that are deployed on-premises in the shape of a physical rack
  • Amazon ECS Anywhere: Gives you the ability to deploy Amazon ECS on-premises (same capabilities and APIs as the cloud version)
  • Amazon EKS Anywhere: Gives you the ability to deploy Amazon Kubernetes Service (EKS)...